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A Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin. An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development.

236 HISTORY OF AVAUPACA COUNTY
Waupaca Electric Light and Railway Company
Although this is a private corporation, it controls utilities which are of a public and important nature. The Waupaca Electric Light Associa¬ tion was organized in 1886. It was incorporated in 1898 and in the following year Irving P. Lord and W. B. Baker purchased a majority of the stock and built the five miles of electric railway from AVaupaca to the Wisconsin Veterans' Home and the Grand View Hotel on Rainbow Lake. Mr. Lord has been president and general manager of both the Electric Light Association and the Electric Light & Rail^yay Company. Air. Baker, the original secretary and treasurer was succeeded by G. B. Lord. The existing corporation operates not only the electric street and interurban railway, but furnishes alternating current for lighting and power purposes. In the latter department it has 450 patrons on the list and maintains thirty street lights. The Waupaca Electric Light & Rail- w^ay Company is capitalized at $50,000 and its property holdings amount to $150,000.
The Churches
Hardly had the pioneers of Waupaca County throwm up rude shelters for their families than they commenced to form religious classes, societies or churches. Silas and Weston Miller, and Samuel Simcock, Methodists, and David A. Peck and Cutting Marsh, Baptist and Presbyterian min¬ isters, were earliest in the field, and reaped their high rewards.
The Alethodists were first to organize and erect a church, and were followed by the Baptists in 1853. Their organizations have continued to the present.
Neither the Presbyterians, who organized so early, nor the Congre- gationalists, who formed a church in 1876 and erected a house of worship on the site of the old Presbyterian Church, have societies in Waupaca. The Presbyterians were quite active during the early administration of Rev. Cutting Alarsh. He had moved to Green Bay in 1848, and in the course of his travels visited Lyman Dayton,, on Bear Creek, the south branch of the Waupaca. On April 27,1851, he preached his first sermon in Pleasant Valley, and during the following week visited Waupaca. At that time there were eleven families within half a mile of the Falls (at the Chandler settlement), thirteen within three miles of each other, and another thirteen at Weyauwega. But the missionary was not deterred by that fact, as he determined to make Waupaca his headciuarters for his religious labors in the neighboring country. In Alay, 1851, he preached the first Presbyterian sermon in the settlement at Waupaca, built himself

A Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin. An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development.

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A Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin. An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development.

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A Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin

Author

John M. Ware

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This two-volume work on Waupaca County, Wisconsin, provides a history of the county and the cities and villages of Waupaca, New London, Clintonville, Weyauwega, Iola, Manawa, Marion, Scandinavia, Freemont, Embarrass, Mukwa, Northport, Ogdensburg, and the towns of the county. Volume 2 consists of biographical sketches of residents of the county.

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Chicago and New York

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Lewis Publishing Company

Publication Date (Original)

1917

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English

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Wisconsin Historical Society

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A Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin. An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development.

Author

John M. Ware

Publication Date (Original)

1917

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Publisher-Electronic

Wisconsin Historical Society

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We believe that online reproduction of this material is permitted because its copyright protection has lapsed or because sharing it here for non-profit educational purposes complies with the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law. Teachers and students are generally free to reproduce pages for nonprofit classroom use. For advice about other uses, or if you believe that you possess copyright to some of this material, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org.

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2008

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236 HISTORY OF AVAUPACA COUNTY
Waupaca Electric Light and Railway Company
Although this is a private corporation, it controls utilities which are of a public and important nature. The Waupaca Electric Light Associa¬ tion was organized in 1886. It was incorporated in 1898 and in the following year Irving P. Lord and W. B. Baker purchased a majority of the stock and built the five miles of electric railway from AVaupaca to the Wisconsin Veterans' Home and the Grand View Hotel on Rainbow Lake. Mr. Lord has been president and general manager of both the Electric Light Association and the Electric Light & Rail^yay Company. Air. Baker, the original secretary and treasurer was succeeded by G. B. Lord. The existing corporation operates not only the electric street and interurban railway, but furnishes alternating current for lighting and power purposes. In the latter department it has 450 patrons on the list and maintains thirty street lights. The Waupaca Electric Light & Rail- w^ay Company is capitalized at $50,000 and its property holdings amount to $150,000.
The Churches
Hardly had the pioneers of Waupaca County throwm up rude shelters for their families than they commenced to form religious classes, societies or churches. Silas and Weston Miller, and Samuel Simcock, Methodists, and David A. Peck and Cutting Marsh, Baptist and Presbyterian min¬ isters, were earliest in the field, and reaped their high rewards.
The Alethodists were first to organize and erect a church, and were followed by the Baptists in 1853. Their organizations have continued to the present.
Neither the Presbyterians, who organized so early, nor the Congre- gationalists, who formed a church in 1876 and erected a house of worship on the site of the old Presbyterian Church, have societies in Waupaca. The Presbyterians were quite active during the early administration of Rev. Cutting Alarsh. He had moved to Green Bay in 1848, and in the course of his travels visited Lyman Dayton,, on Bear Creek, the south branch of the Waupaca. On April 27,1851, he preached his first sermon in Pleasant Valley, and during the following week visited Waupaca. At that time there were eleven families within half a mile of the Falls (at the Chandler settlement), thirteen within three miles of each other, and another thirteen at Weyauwega. But the missionary was not deterred by that fact, as he determined to make Waupaca his headciuarters for his religious labors in the neighboring country. In Alay, 1851, he preached the first Presbyterian sermon in the settlement at Waupaca, built himself